During recent years snow tubing has grown in popularity at ski resorts as a simple, fun way to slide on snow. No experience is required.

Snow tubing is as easy as sitting down and letting gravity do the work.

Even if you've never seen snow before, your first tube ride can be a fun one. Snow tubing facilities vary from ski area to ski area, with some offering straight, high speed runs, while others offer twisty banked runs.

Many of these areas also have a dedicated lift serving the tubing area to quickly get you back up the hill for another run. While prices vary, most are under $25 for a two-hour session.

Here is a list of resorts offering tubing:

Bretton Woods, Bretton Woods

Tubing is available daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Night tubing is available from 6 to 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through March 8. Special vacation week night tubing is available Feb. 16-22 from 6 to 8 p.m. Tubes are rented on an hourly basis.

Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway

Cranmore offers a lift-serviced snowtubing park that has been recently expanded to 10 lanes. It is lift-served by both a magic-carpet style lift as well as handle-tow lift. All ages welcome. Children 42 inches and taller may ride solo; little ones may ride with an adult. The park is open Friday-Sunday and holiday periods. Guests can enjoy snowtubing during the daytime or keep going under the lights until 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and some holiday dates.

Granite Gorge, Keene

Granite Gorge offers the 600-foot Superior Tubing Park serviced by a Wondercarpet Lift. Two-person snowtubes and minitubes for kids are available. A full mountain sound system and new lighting. Cosmic Tubing on Saturday with black lights, fluorescent tubes, light shows and a DJ. Snowtubing is offered Wednesday-Sunday.

Great Glen Trails, Pinkham Notch

Great Glen Trails has a recently expanded groomed tubing hill and specialized snowtubes. The hill is a traditional walk-up format that now is three times wider than the older park and can accommodate twice as many tubers. Passes are valid all-day.

Gunstock Mountain Resort, Gilford

Thrill Hill Tubing Park offers New Hampshire's longest tubing run, with four chutes serviced by its own handle-tow lift. The tubing hill is open Tuesday-Friday nights and all day on Saturday-Sunday with extended hours during holiday periods. Tickets are sold in two-hour blocks and can sell out.

Jackson XC, Jackson

The Zoom Zone Traditional Tubing Park is a traditional tubing park with snowtubes available in the rental shop.

King Pine at Purity Spring Resort, East Madison

The Pine Meadows Snowtubing Park is serviced by a handle-tow lift, guests will find a number of groomed "snow chutes" to shoot down. Snowtubing is offered Friday-Sunday and holiday periods. Tickets are sold for two-hour sessions and can be reserved in advance.

Loon Mountain, Lincoln

Loon's snowtubing park is located on Little Sister with both lift serviced and walk-up tubing available. Tubes are rented by the hour and are steerable and stoppable. The park is open Thursday-Monday with night tubing also available on Friday and Saturday. As many as ten sessions are offered each day. A Tot tubing area is also available at the base of Little Sister.

McIntyre Ski Area, Manchester

McIntyre's lift-serviced snowtubing park was recently expanded to offer more than 600 feet of fun along with a total of eight lanes. A wonder carpet lift services the park and is open Thursday and Friday 4 to 8 p.m., 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Additional hours are available on vacation weeks, holidays and snow days.

Ragged's brand new tubing park will be more than 650 feet in length, with 10 lanes, designed with a series of pitches and rollers for speeds up to 30 mph, ending in a 250-foot run-out. A new carpet lift will bring snow tubers from the base area to the top of the new tubing park. The park will be open Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays. Advance sales are available online and sold in two hour sessions.

Waterville Valley, Waterville Valley

Waterville's tubing hill is located adjacent to the Waterville Valley Golf Course, near the resort’s Town Square and hotels. The hill was being constructed in the fall of 2013 and will have four dedicated tubing lanes. The Tubing Clubhouse & Warming Center offers assorted snacks and beverages, including beer, wine, and hot chocolate, homemade soups and chili, as well as an outdoor fire pit. Tickets for tubing will be available at The Clubhouse by the hour. The new tubing hill will be weather and natural snowfall dependent. Open on Fridays from 3 to 9 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and during holiday periods.

Moose Mountain Recreation

107 Moose Mountain Road, Brookfield, NH 522-0153

Snow tubing open Friday from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday, noon to 9 p.m. and Sunday noon to 6 p.m. $16 for two hours.